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title: "Deepfake sites host explicit fakes of 100+ European politicians"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/deepfake-sites-host-explicit-fakes-of-100-european-politicians-0963d2
source_name: "WIRED"
source_url: https://www.wired.com/story/sexually-explicit-deepfake-sites-target-100-plus-politicians-in-europe/
published: 2026-09-14T11:00:00.000Z
topics: ["policy", "security"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Deepfake sites host explicit fakes of 100+ European politicians

*2026-09-14 · Source: [WIRED](https://www.wired.com/story/sexually-explicit-deepfake-sites-target-100-plus-politicians-in-europe/)*

An analysis of 160 deepfake websites found sexually explicit, fabricated images of more than 100 politicians across 22 European countries. Nearly all of the targeted politicians are women.

**Why it matters:** This is concrete evidence that AI-generated non-consensual imagery has moved from targeting celebrities to targeting sitting elected officials at scale, putting the people who write image-abuse and deepfake legislation among its direct victims. That dynamic tends to accelerate regulation faster than abstract harm reports do.

**Topics:** policy, security

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